Aqua21
Aqua21
- Event time: 9:30am until 11:00am
- Event date: 3rd March 2025
- Speaker: Courtney Peyton (Aqua21)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
Event details
As a founder director, Courtney delivers key relationships for clean tech water start-up Aqua21. She works with public sector buyers, policy makers and regulators, as well as key NGOs and third sector buyers and operators in the tourism, agriculture and property sectors, overseeing and delivering research and business strategy development in these areas.
She is also a senior consultant for Puntios, an innovation consultancy supporting large companies, research organisations and tech transfer offices. Puntios drives sustainable solutions by helping organisations to exploit the value of their knowledge assets and IP. The team supports the development of innovation strategies, advises on the development and assessment of programmes to deliver innovation and develops innovative cultures in organisations. The business ethos is to create, support and build new ventures.
Courtney has been a senior sustainability engagement professional for three decades, running sustainability consultancy Thirdwave (a University of Edinburgh spin-out) for many years. She has particular expertise in strategic and technical responses to climate change and it impacts on built environment and infrastructure, planning and land use, the consultancy delivered on the needs of blue-chip companies, government bodies and NGOs. She has a strong track record in delivering sustainable assets which underpin client CSR targets, achieving commercial recognition, community buy-in and national visibility. She enjoys public speaking and engagement across sectoral lines, taking a systems-based approach to sustainable change.
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